. Birds of the Bible . nge orderly in ranks and to keep close togetherin array : and this they do by turns, each in his maintain a set watch all the night long, and havetheir sentinels. These stand on one foot and hold a littlestone within the other, which by falling from it, if theyAvould chance to sleep, might awaken them and reprovethem for their negligence. While these watch, all the restslee]), couching their heads under their wings; and onewhile they rest on one foot and otherwhiles they shift totill other. The captain beareth up his head aloft intothe air, and giveth signal
. Birds of the Bible . nge orderly in ranks and to keep close togetherin array : and this they do by turns, each in his maintain a set watch all the night long, and havetheir sentinels. These stand on one foot and hold a littlestone within the other, which by falling from it, if theyAvould chance to sleep, might awaken them and reprovethem for their negligence. While these watch, all the restslee]), couching their heads under their wings; and onewhile they rest on one foot and otherwhiles they shift totill other. The captain beareth up his head aloft intothe air, and giveth signal to the rest what is to be cranes, if they be made tame and gentle, are veryj)lavful and wanton birds, and they will one by oni danceas it were, and run round with their long ntcks shakingfull imtowardly. This is surely known, that wluii I heymind to take a flight over the Sea Pontus, they will tlyat first directly to the nairow point at the straights ofthe said sea, lying belweiii the two capes Criu-Miiophou. ^ TIIK cram: 449 and Carainbis, and tlion jjivseiitly I hoy ballast stonos in tlicir foot, and sand in their throats, thatthey fly more steady and ciului-o tlie wind. When tlieybe half way over, down thoy flinj^ tliese stones: but Avhenthey are come to tlie continent the sand also they disgorgeout of their craw. As this stands, it is fairly good natural history, savethe stone and sand part of it, which is ])urc tradition,and incredible. It is instances like these, in the case ofwhat almost might be called contemporaneous writers,that make the older historians of the Bible appear sosane and vital in what they have to say of the birds. Aristotle said cranes fought so fiercely that men mighttake thorn alive wliile engaged in a battle, and also thatmany prudent actions appear to be performed by what these actions were, he did not state. In their chosen locations they nested on the ground,or in colonies in trees. Their nests were large heap
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